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News release: “Building upon its heritage as an innovator and leader in environmental sustainability, PepsiCo today announced it has developed the world’s first PET plastic bottle made entirely from plant-based, fully renewable resources, enabling the company to manufacture a beverage container with a significantly reduced carbon footprint. PepsiCo’s “green” bottle is 100 percent recyclable and …
Via LLRX.com, Knowledge Discovery Resources 2011 – An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation: This new guide by Marcus P. Zillman focuses on the most current and reliable resources for knowledge discovery available on the Internet. With the constant addition of new and pertinent information to the web, it is very easy to experience information overload. …
NYT: “In early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex here embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. Their mission was to devise something far more important to the future of Google Inc. than its next search algorithm or app. They wanted to build better bosses…Project Oxygen is also unusual…because it is based on Googles own data, …
How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools, Patricia C. Franks, Associate Professor, School of Library & Information Science, San Jose State University “Dr. Franks report addresses the challenges of federal recordkeeping in the social media age. She describes the struggle of agency records managers to keep up with the …
You Have No Sovereignty Where We Gather Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy and Sovereignty in the Cloud, Balázs Bodó – Budapest University of Technology and Economics; Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, March 7, 2011 “Wikileaks represents a new type of (h)activism, which shifts the source of potential threat from a few, dangerous …
A Primer on Corporate Governance, by Olivier Serrat – “Good corporate governance helps an organization achieve its objectives; poor corporate governance can speed its decline or demise. Never before has the glare of the spotlight focused so much on boards of directors. Corporate governance has emerged from obscurity and become a mainstream topic.” Direction and …
“The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to announced the release of Publishing Support for Small Print-Based Publishers: Options for ARL Libraries. This report is the summary of a project funded by ARL to investigate how research libraries might provide support to print-only publishers in order to ensure long-term digital access to their content. …
UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) – Women on boards February 2011: “At the current rate of change it will take over 70 years to achieve gender-balanced boardrooms in the UK…The low proportion of women holding directorships suggests British business is not using all of the skills and talents of the workforce effectively. …
Gallup: “Nationwide, 16.3% of U.S. adults were uninsured in February. The percentage of Americans who report getting health insurance from their employer has been steadily decreasing over the past three years, dropping to a low of 44.6% in February. Over the same time period, the percentage of Americans covered by government healthcare Medicare, Medicaid, or …
Public media puts millions into investigative work: “PR, PBS and local public broadcast stations around the country are hiring more journalists and pumping millions of dollars into investigative news to make up for what they see as a lack of deep-digging coverage by their for-profit counterparts. Public radio and TV stations have seen the need …
This map, dated March 15, 1960 details the Broadband Microwave Radio Relay Stations (Bell and Connecting Routes) throughout the United States and southern portions of Canada. [via attorney Bill Ramonos]. The black and white one page map is part of a larger project, The Microwave Radio and Coaxial Cable Networks of the Bell System, a …
How bicycling will save the economy (if we let it) by Elly Blue “In the many North American cities where two-wheeled transportation is taking off, a new bicycle economy is emerging. It’s amazing how much money can stay in your community when it isn’t being pumped into the gas tank, big insurance, and the auto …
